Courtney Kennedy Hill

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Courtney Kennedy Hill
Born
Mary Courtney Kennedy

(1956-09-09) September 9, 1956 (age 62)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s)
Jeffrey Robert Ruhe
(m. 1980;div. 1991)

Paul Michael Hill
(m. 1993;sep 2006)
Children1
Parent(s) Robert F. Kennedy
Ethel Kennedy
Family Kennedy

Mary Courtney Kennedy Hill (known as Courtney, [1] born September 9, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American human rights activist. [2] She is the fifth of the eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel.

Boston State capital of Massachusetts, U.S.

Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city proper covers 48 square miles (124 km2) with an estimated population of 694,583 in 2018, making it also the most populous city in New England. Boston is the seat of Suffolk County as well, although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest such area in the country. As a combined statistical area (CSA), this wider commuting region is home to some 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States.

Massachusetts State of the United States of America

Massachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York to the west. The state is named after the Massachusett tribe, which once inhabited the east side of the area, and is one of the original thirteen states. The capital of Massachusetts is Boston, which is also the most populous city in New England. Over 80% of Massachusetts's population lives in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, a region influential upon American history, academia, and industry. Originally dependent on agriculture, fishing and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution. During the 20th century, Massachusetts's economy shifted from manufacturing to services. Modern Massachusetts is a global leader in biotechnology, engineering, higher education, finance, and maritime trade.

Human rights defenders or human rights activists are people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists, environmentalists, whistle-blowers, trade unionists, lawyers, teachers, housing campaigners, and so on. They can defend rights as part of their jobs or in a voluntary capacity. As a result of their activities, they can sometimes be the subject of reprisals and attacks of all kinds, including smears, surveillance, harassment, false charges, arbitrary detention, restrictions on the right to freedom of association, and physical attacks.

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Early life and education

Mary Courtney Kennedy was born on September 9, 1956, to Ethel (née  Skakel) and Robert F. Kennedy. [3] She attended the University of California [4] [5] and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, where she studied history and literature. [5]

Ethel Kennedy American human-rights campaigner

Ethel Skakel Kennedy is an American human rights advocate. Kennedy is the widow of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy as well as the sixth child of George Skakel and Ann Brannack. She married Robert F. Kennedy in 1950, and the couple had eleven children together.

Robert F. Kennedy 20th-century American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. Kennedy, like his brothers John and Edward, was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and has come to be viewed by some historians as an icon of modern American liberalism.

University of California public university system in California

The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-system public higher education plan, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges System.

Career

She formerly worked at Children's Television Workshop and was a representative for the United Nations AIDS Foundation. [6] In 1988, she served as treasurer of the congressional reelection campaign of Joseph P. Kennedy II. [7] [8] At the time, she lived in both New York and Washington, D.C. [7] She was a board member of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and director of the fund-raising for Robert F. Kennedy Memorial. [7]

United Nations Intergovernmental organization

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked with maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international co-operation, and being a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. It was established after World War II, with the aim of preventing future wars, and succeeded the ineffective League of Nations. Its headquarters, which are subject to extraterritoriality, are in Manhattan, New York City, and it has other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna and The Hague. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding international law. The UN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193.

Joseph P. Kennedy II American businessman

Joseph Patrick Kennedy II is an American businessman, Democratic politician, and a member of the Kennedy family.

Washington, D.C. Capital of the United States

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, the first president of the United States and a Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city, located on the Potomac River bordering Maryland and Virginia, is one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.

Personal life

While at the Children's Television Workshop, she met ABC sports producer Jeffrey Robert Ruhe. The couple married on June 14, 1980, in Washington, D.C. [1] [4] They divorced in 1991. [9]

American Broadcasting Company American broadcast television network

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Walt Disney Television, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building, But the network's second corporate headquarters and News headquarters remains in New York City, New York at their broadcast center on 77 West 66th Street in Lincoln Square in Upper West Side Manhattan.

She married an Irishman named Paul Michael Hill on June 26, 1993, on a boat in the Aegean Sea. [9] [10] At the time, Paul Hill was out on bail while appealing his conviction; [11] he had been unjustly imprisoned for 15 years after being convicted of several bombings carried out by the IRA. No evidence linked him to either the bombings or to involvement with the IRA. [12] Confessions of himself and three others (collectively called "The Guildford Four") were coerced and the purported interrogations notes were fabricated by the police some time later. [13] [14]

Aegean Sea Part of the Mediterranean Sea between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas, or between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. The sea has an area of some 215,000 square kilometres. In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea by the straits of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus. The Aegean Islands are located within the sea and some bound it on its southern periphery, including Crete and Rhodes. The sea reaches a maximum depth of 3,544 meters, to the east of Crete.

Provisional Irish Republican Army Disbanded Irish Republican paramilitary group

The Irish Republican Army, also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland. It was the most active republican paramilitary group during the Troubles. It saw itself as the successor to the original IRA and called itself simply the Irish Republican Army (IRA), or Óglaigh na hÉireann in Irish, and was broadly referred to as such by others. The IRA was designated a terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom and an illegal organisation in the Republic of Ireland.

The couple had one daughter, Saoirse Roisin Kennedy Hill who was born on May 22, 1997. On August 1, 2019, Saoirse died from an apparent drug overdose at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, at the age of 22. [15]

Drug overdose ingestion or application of a drug in quantities greater than recommended or generally practiced

A drug overdose is the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities much greater than are recommended. Typically it is used for cases when a risk to health will potentially result. An overdose may result in a toxic state or death.

Kennedy Compound United States national historic site

The Kennedy Compound consists of three houses on six acres of waterfront property on Cape Cod along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, in the United States. It was once the home of an American businessman, investor, politician, and U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy; his wife, Rose; and their children, including U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy. As an adult, the youngest son, Edward, lived in his parents' house, and it was his primary residence from 1982 until he died of brain cancer at the compound, in August 2009.

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  3. ↑ Anthony, Carl Sferrazza (October 8, 2002). The Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961-1963. Simon and Schuster. p. 119. ISBN   9780743214735.
  4. 1 2 Latham, Caroline; Sakol, Jeannie (October 1, 1989). The Kennedy encyclopedia: an A-to-Z illustrated guide to America's royal family. NAL Books. p. 214. ISBN   9780453006842.
  5. 1 2 Bly, Nellie (1996). The Kennedy Men: Three Generations of Sex, Scandal and Secrets. Kensington Books. p. 257. ISBN   9781575661063.
  6. ↑ MacGuire, James P. (March 15, 2017). Real Lace Revisited: Inside the Hidden World of America’s Irish Aristocracy. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 152. ISBN   9781493024926.
  7. 1 2 3 Bly 1996, p. 295.
  8. ↑ "Kennedy's children strive to carry on father's work". El Paso Times. The Associated Press. June 5, 1988. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
  9. 1 2 Bly 1996, p. 340.
  10. ↑ "Saoirse Kennedy Hill's father sobs as he lays 22-year-old daughter to rest". The Telegraph. August 6, 2019. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Kennedy clan rallies behind in-law Hill". The Orlando Sentinel. February 24, 1994. p. A-7. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
  12. ↑ Holt, Richard (June 4, 2010). "The Guildford Four: in the name of justice". ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved August 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ Toolis, Kevin (February 25, 1990). "When British Justice Failed". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved August 3, 2019.
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